Comment by makeitdouble

This is the idealistic approach. Then reality comes knocking at the door.

It's sad people get collateral damage and it should be fixed, but the world turns around with millions of these workarounds everywhere.

The most interesting I remember is stock management software: at 3 different places I had the employees dealing with stock explain how they set outrageous prices (like 9999999.99 EUR for a toothbrush) to keep an item in the inventory system but mark it as unavailable for a day or less until it gets restocked again.

I'm sure there is an official way to put something out of stock and restock it again, but it's just painful for an operation that happens basically everyday, for dozens of items.